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#20250831 - A Broken Prayer: The Posture of a Guilty Heart - Psalm 51 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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Amen. Psalm 51 again, the title of
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broken prayer, the posture of a guilty heart.
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You'll notice the heading here that we didn't read together.
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It says here to the chief musician a Psalm of David when
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Nathan the prophet went to him after he had gone into
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Bathsheba. Now this Psalm is one of seven
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psalms that are called penitential psalms.
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What that means is they are songs of confession of sin,
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Psalms of humility, and psalms of repentance.
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And so if you're ever wanting to read through a Psalm to give you
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verbs or or words as you're confessing your sin to the Lord,
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go to one of these 7 psalms because they are kind of a, a
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grid for us to pray. I'll give you all seven of these
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if you want to jot these down. The seven penitential psalms are
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found in Psalm 6, Psalm 32, Psalm 38, Psalm 51.
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Here is we're going to read Psalm 102, Psalm 130, and Psalm
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143. And you can feel this even as we
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read it today. David speaking in complete
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brokenness and heartache because of his own sin.
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And he tells us here in verse 17 that brokenness is a thing that
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God desires from us in our failings.
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You know, the world will discard broken things if it's broken.
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We're done with it. But in the Kingdom of God, he
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draws near to those that are broken.
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Look at what it says here in verse 17.
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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a
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contrite heart. These, oh God, you will not
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despise. And so in a room like this 1045
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service, I don't know what you've brought in here today
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regarding your own personal story or the sin that you have
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carried into this place. Perhaps there is a sense of
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failure because sin has robbed you of the joy of your
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salvation. Or maybe there's something that
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you've even carried for years that you've never told anybody
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about. Perhaps today you're in
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compromise and you might even feel like you're beyond the
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point of God's forgiveness. God tells us as we just read
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here, He does not despise a broken heart.
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It tells us another place. He draws near to those that are
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broken. There's something of our
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brokenness and our honesty that that attracts the Lord to us.
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And So what I want you to know and hear today before we jump
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in, He cares for those of you that are sitting here today that
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are weary with the weight of sin.
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He cares for those of you that are broken, that are empty.
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And he says to us here today through this Psalm, this is the
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way for this to be fixed in your life and for you to be restored.
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David is going to help us and prescribe a way out of the
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weight of sin in the context of God's grace here.
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And so the good news that I get to share with you this morning
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is that forgiveness is instant. It can happen right here today.
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It can all be taken care of. And you can leave out the doors
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on the way out this afternoon free from whatever it is that
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you brought into this place. And, and this is where David is
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in Psalm 51. But there's a story.
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Many of us are familiar with it, but some of us might not be
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behind Psalm 51. So let's just take a quick look
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at the backdrop here. David was the greatest king that
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Israel had ever known. He was over 50 years old at this
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point, and he had settled into a rut, which is, by the way, a
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dangerous place for any of us to be if we find ourselves in a
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spiritual rut, because that's where the greatest compromise
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will always come. And the background to the Psalm,
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if you want to jot this down in your Bible, maybe right next to
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Psalm 51 is Second Samuel 11 and 12.
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And you can read about the story there, Second Samuel 11 and 12.
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And it tells us there that this was the time when kings would go
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out with their armies to battle. This would have been springtime.
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But David, again, he remained in Jerusalem while his army went
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out under his chief commander, Joe AB, and they went and fought
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a battle in the area of Ammon there.
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And this was unlike David to do. If you read through his life,
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you realize he is a mighty warrior.
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He was always out there fighting with his his mighty men.
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But at this season of his life, David's a little bit older.
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He's had a lot of success. Again, he was known as the
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greatest king of Israel. He was the second king, but was
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a great man, a great leader, a great warrior.
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But he became comfortable at this season of his life.
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And what happens a lot of times with us is, is we get
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comfortable as we begin to let our guard down.
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And the way he did that is he decided, I'm I'm going to let
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those guys go out and fight. I'm going to stay back in the
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palace. And he didn't go into battle.
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And we know after reading the story and looking back, he would
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have been much safer in the battle than he was staying in
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the courts of his palace. But you know the story from
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here, right? One night, he was on the roof of
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his palace and Jerusalem. It was on a high heel so he
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could lookout, and he could see all the other houses around.
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And he sees a beautiful woman next door to him taking a bath
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on her roof, which would have been typical in this day.
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And of course, she was aware of who lived next door to her as
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well, right? And so he calls for her, tells
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us that he takes her. And then as we read in the intro
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here to Psalm 51, he had a sexual relationship with her.
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And here in that moment, the great king of Israel, God's
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chosen man, broke God's heart because he committed adultery
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with Bathsheba. And then after some time passed,
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he hears the news that made his heart drop.
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She realizes she's pregnant now with his son.
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So David does what many of us have done.
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I've done it. He begins the process of hiding
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and covering up his sin to do whatever he can to make it is if
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it didn't happen. So another problem with this
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story is that she was also married and she was married to a
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man named Uriah who was one of Davids mighty men out there in
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the battle where David should have been.
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So David then calls for Uriah to come back to the palace.
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Uriah checks in with David. David wants to feed him.
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David then gets him drunk. And in this David is saying, go
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home to your wife Bathsheba, and go sleep with her.
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He's hoping that if Uriah will sleep with Bathsheba, then that
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will be covered. And people would think, oh, it's
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it's Uriah's kid and, and the story's over at that point.
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But Uriah never goes home. And the reason is because he was
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an honorable man and he wanted to be back where he knew he
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should have been in battle with his men.
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So he says, how can I sit back and just chill and my lazy boy
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when all of my fellow soldiers are out in the battlefield, when
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they are out there laying down their lives?
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And so drunk Uriah goes home, but he doesn't go inside his
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home. Instead, he sleeps on the porch
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of his home because he's ready to get back out where he knows
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he should be. Which is interesting because it
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shows us there that a drunk Uriah is more honorable than a
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sober David. So after several attempts with
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Uriah, trying to get him to go back home, go sleep with his
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wife Bathsheba, David gets desperate and he comes up with
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this plan. Here he gives Uriah a letter and
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he says, take this back to Joab again, who was the chief
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commander of David's army in battle and and Joab then
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receives this letter from Uriah. And the letter reads like this.
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David writes, I want you to take Uriah, set him at the heat of
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the battle, the fiercest part of the battle, the front lines.
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And then he says, and I want you to withdraw all the rest of the
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men and leave him up there to fight alone.
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And so Joab obeys the command of his King David, and of course,
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Uriah is killed there in battle. And then Joab sends a message
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back to David and it reads, Uriah, your servant is dead.
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And so in order for David to continue now to try to cover up
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his sin, he takes Bathsheba now to be his wife.
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Now David, the great king of Israel has sinned in, in the
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worst of ways here, adultery, murder, lying, deception,
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covering it up. And he was ruining now his
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testimony as the great king of Israel, because David takes
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another man's wife, she gets pregnant, has her husband
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killed, drags Joab now into his sin.
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I have no doubt that he loses respect now for David.
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Meanwhile, as some time went on, Bathsheba's grandfather, who
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happened to be David's greatest counselor, his name was
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Ahithophel. He gets bitter at David and he
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begins to plan David's death in a rebellion.
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He was ready to take David out, but after some time ahead, FL
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commits suicide because he knows that he's wrong in what he's
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doing. And this sin of David has
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created an absolute mess of his life.
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And it explicitly tells us in Second Samuel 1127, the thing
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that David had done displeased the Lord.
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And then David sits with all of this for over a year.
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He continues to go through the motions as the king.
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He continues to do the daily sacrifice in the temple.
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But every night as he lays his head down on his pillow, no
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confession. I'm sure He's hoping perhaps
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that he can excuse it, that this will at some point go away.
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But what happens when we sit with our sin long enough?
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Is our heart begun? Begins to get hard and maybe
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he's thinking I'm getting away with it.
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But you and I know for any of us that have sat with sin, if we've
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hid in our sin in hopes that it's never found out and maybe
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here, if we're in that place today, then we can imagine how
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David feels because David's going to write about it.
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It's eating away at him. It's it's miserable.
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He tells us that there's no joy, no happiness in his life.
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Some scholars even believe that as David sometimes in the Psalms
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writes of a physical illness, that he was battling it.
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It was likely the result of some of the stress that he was
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carrying as a result of this. And God allowed it to do what
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sin does in all of our lives. Unresolved sin wears away at
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every single one of us. Now, after a year of this, God
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sends Nathan the prophet to David.
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And Nathan shows up to the king, and he does what many prophets
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do. He begins to tell David a story,
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and this is a story. He says there was a wealthy man
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who had lots of flocks, lots of sheep, lots of lambs, and there
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was a poor man. But this poor man only had one
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lamb, and he loved that lamb. He fed that lamb from his own
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table. He let it sleep with his family
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and his house. He loved that lamb like his own
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child. And as the story continues,
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there were some travellers who visited one day, the wealthy
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man. And instead of taking one of his
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own lambs to feed the traveller, the wealthy man took the poor
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man's one lamb and used it to feed the traveller.
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And this crushed the heart of the poor man who loved this
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little lamb. So at this point in the story,
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Nathan, the prophet looks at David and he says what should be
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done to this wealthy man? And David gets so angry by the
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story. And, and I have to believe it's
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because David was a shepherd. At one point.
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He was out in the fields with the flocks of sheep.
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He connected with the sheep as well.
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And as he's feeling this, he says, this man should be put to
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death. And then Nathan catches eyes
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with David and says some of the most chilling words that I'm
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sure David has ever heard. He looks at him square in the
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face and he says, David, you are that man.
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In other words, David, you're the one that had it all.
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And you took from Uriah his one lamb, his one wife.
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So Nathan is saying to David, David, I know what you did.
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You've been trying to hide it. You've been hoping it would go
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away. But even more importantly,
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David, God knows what you did. And it was in that moment, being
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confronted with his sin, that David finally breaks.
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And he says 3 words that he should have said immediately
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after his sin. He should have said a year ago.
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He says I have sinned. The sin that had been so hidden
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for so long, he finally owns. He finally begins to come clean.
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He doesn't shift the blame to someone else, the culture or the
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way he was raised. His parents know what he does is
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he comes face to face with the reality of what he does and he
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acknowledges that he was guilty. He was guilty of everything.
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And there's David now in this moment, turning his heart back
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to God. He's feeling the weight of all
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of that sin. He's feeling the the heartbreak
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of a year out of fellowship with God.
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And I got imagine he's processing all of the fallout
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that the sin is already caused in his life.
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And David is undone. David is broken.
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And David then approaches the Lord with a guilty heart here in
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Psalm 51. Now before we jump in, I was
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asked a question this week that I'm sure many of you have asked.
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I remember at one point asking the same question.
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It was on Calvary Live this week.
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And I believe there's a woman that called and she says, hey,
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if I'm already forgiven because I put my faith and trust in
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Jesus And at the cross, when Jesus paid the price for our
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sin, he said it is finished. It is paid in full, which means
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the moment we put our faith and trust in Jesus, all of our past,
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present and future sin is forgiven.
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And that means he doesn't make payments now for our sin.
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He didn't take a mortgage out and and every month he's making
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a payment. He made one payment finally and
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for all. And she says, is that true that
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I'm forgiven? I said, yes, isn't that the best
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news in the world? And she said, well, let me ask
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another question. Why then do I need to confess my
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sin if it's already forgiven? Why do I need to ask forgiveness
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from God if if, if it's already forgiven?
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And, and the answer to that is twofold.
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There is positional forgiveness, and that is again, the moment
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you receive Jesus as your Savior, all of that forgiveness
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was appropriated. It was added to your life, and
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you are positionally forgiven, which means you have a home in
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heaven waiting for you, which means that there is glory on the
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other side, which means that he doesn't hold your sin against
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you. When it comes to your position,
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because Paul talks about this, your position is now in Christ.
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But there's another kind of forgiveness that we could call
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relational forgiveness. And that would be like if my son
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comes into my room and ask him a question and he lies to me and
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then he walks out of my room. Maybe I knew he lied.
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Maybe I didn't know he lied. But there's something now in
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between our relationship. Trust is the currency of every
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relationship. And he has broken that trust now
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because there's a lie that it's going to weigh on him.
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And after some time, maybe he comes back to my room and he
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goes, Dad, you know, I just, I feel this.
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I'm sorry I lied to you. And of course I'm going to say
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to him, I forgive you. I love you.
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And it's that way with the Lord. When we have unconfessed sin or
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undealt with sin in our life, there's something that hinders
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or we could say blocks our fellowship with God, our
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relationship with him. It's not that we lose our
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salvation. I want to make that very clear.
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The Bible says you are eternally kept in the palm of his hand.
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If he was powerful enough to save you, he is powerful enough
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to keep you, and he will do that for all eternity.
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It says in the book of Jude. He will present you faultless
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before the throne of God, which I I am so thankful for.
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But on this side of eternity, it's possible to be positionally
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forgiven, but to have sin in my life, that's keeping me from a
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relationship with God, that's keeping me from sensing his
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presence, that's keeping me from the blessing because I'm
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allowing that to sit. And the longer it sits, the
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harder my heart gets. The Bible says that we can
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actually even have a heart. That is insensitive.
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It's desensitized. So with all of that being said,
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jump in here into Psalm 51 if you're taking notes.
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There are two prayers that David prays here of a broken guilty
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heart. 2 Prayers of a broken guilty heart number 1 He says to
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the Lord, Cleanse me, cleanse me.
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Verses one through 6 here beginning at verse one, Have
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mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving kindness,
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according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
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Blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly from my iniquity
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and cleanse me from my sin. This is what God was waiting for
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David to do for over a year was to come and to admit and to
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confess. And you'll see here, take note
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of this. David writes over and over
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again. He says have mercy upon me.
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Blot out my transgression, wash me from my sin, my iniquity,
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cleanse me from my sin. He's beyond the point at this
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season of blaming others, of making excuses, of trying to
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cover it up. He is owning his sin and and
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listen, Church, when we are willing to own our sin, even the
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greatest of our sin is met with the greatest of his mercy.
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That's the wonderful news. There's no hope for the pardon
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of sin or for the forgiveness of sin if there is no mercy for
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sin. But.
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We know mercy is not getting what you do deserve, which means
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we do deserve justice for our sin.
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And David knows that here, which is why he's not asking for
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justice. David is pleading to the Lord
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for mercy. He's admitting that he's wrong.
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He's saying, I know I deserve all the consequences.
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I know I deserve the fallout of my sin and all that it's brought
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to me and to my family and to the Kingdom.
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But he's saying, oh Lord, would you instead be merciful to me?
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And let me tell you this morning, God is ready right now
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to pour out all of His mercy on your life.
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He forgives beyond what any of us could ever imagine.
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That is the good news and you might think, well, how can this
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be? He answers that as he continues
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here in verse one according to your loving kindness.
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And that's a beautiful word in the Hebrew.
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It's the word has said loving kindness there.
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It's God's covenant love with us, which as one old preacher
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said, it is a love that will not let me go.
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He's saying, God, would you be merciful to me because you have
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a love towards me that you promised You will not let me go,
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Your loving kindness. And David is saying this is what
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I am counting on as I'm confessing and pleading for your
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mercy right now in my life. He continues also according to
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the multitude of your tender mercies.
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And I was thinking about my life and I was thinking, man, there's
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been a multitude of sin in my life.
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For some of us, there may have even been a multitude of sin
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this week, but that multitude of sin can be met with a multitude
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of His tender mercies. And again, He offers you all His
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mercy that is available. And His mercy that He wants to
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give to you this morning is not tentative.
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They're not tentative mercies, as if he's kind of reluctant,
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but He'll give it to you anyway. No, it's His tender mercies.
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And I love what Jeremiah says in Lamentations Chapter 3.
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You know, for those nights that you go home and you lay your
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head down in the pillow and you think, man, I just blew it
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today. I was a horrible employee.
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I said things I regretted. My wife and I got in a fight.
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I'm a horrible man. I'm a horrible husband.
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I'm a horrible dad. I'm a horrible pastor.
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But Jeremiah writes there in Lamentations 3.
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But His mercies are new every morning, which means we get to
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wake up the next day and have a fresh start, a second chance, a
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clean slate. Because His mercies are new
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every morning. And He offers you today all of
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that mercy that is available. But listen, we don't get the
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benefit of all of that if we don't confess our sin to make it
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right with Him. The reason is because sin is a
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big deal. It has to be dealt with because
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it affects, as I mentioned, our relationship with God.
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It gets in the way. And the thing about confession
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is this. It's not enough just to go to
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the person that you hurt and ask for forgiveness, although that
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is important and that's something we need to do.
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It's not enough just to feel really bad about our sin.
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It's not enough to be angry with myself over my sin.
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But David here asks 3 things that are needed, and these can
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be 3 things we can pray as we're in that place #1 He says blot
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out there in verse one. Number two, he says wash me in
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verse 2. And then #3 also in verse 2, he
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says cleanse me, blot out, wash me and cleanse me.
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He says this blot out my transgression.
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To turn to transgress is to purposely walk across a line
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that you were told not to. It's like the kid, if any of us,
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our parents, we know this, the typical candy jar analogy where
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the kid puts his hand in the candy jar and you're like, no,
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no, no, no, don't eat that. We're going to eat dinner soon.
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And the kid looks at you anyway and he grabs a whole handful.
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Like, what are you going to do about it?
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Right? You have literally walked across
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a line because you were told not to.
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My wife reminded me today that my daughter, we used to have
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these dumb, dumb lollipops on our table and we would notice
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that they were missing and, and, and my wife was like, where,
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where are these going? So she would ask the kids.
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I don't know where they're going.
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She's like, well, I told you guys, you're only allowed one.
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And that's after dinner. And then one day she went to go
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do the laundry and she pulls my daughter's blanket over and
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there's all these dumb, dumb wrappers and all these sticks in
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there. Abby, my daughter and I got her
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permission to share that story. She crossed over a line she knew
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she shouldn't have because we told her one dumb, dumb after
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dinner. David knew this.
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David knew the commandments don't murder, but he stepped
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over that line, didn't he? He knew the commandment don't
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covet your neighbor's wife, and yet he stepped over that line.
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And here's the thing about transgression is he did it
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purposely, and he did it willfully anyway.
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Anyway. Now imagine for a moment if
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every lustful thought that you've ever had was recorded in
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a book. Every mean word that you've ever
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uttered was written down. Imagine every drunk night where
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you just went home and got plastered, or you went home and
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got high. Those dates were written down.
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How about every single time that you looked at pornography and
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those times were jotted down? That might be pages and pages.
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Every lie that you've ever committed, or every time you've
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cheated. Imagine that they were in a book
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and they were all recorded against you.
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But then imagine Jesus shows up on the scene and he asks, would
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you like every wrong and every inappropriate thing that you've
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ever said and ever done? Would you like that to be erased
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from the record of your life? And I would be the first in line
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to say yes, please, and then burn that book.
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I don't want anybody to see it. I don't want it to be put up in
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the screen there for all of you guys to see.
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Right? And to blot out literally means
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to wipe away, like erasing the writing out of a book is the
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idea. And it is no longer accounted to
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your life. It's like a debt that you
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incurred that has been forgiven. And David is saying here, my
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adultery, my lying, my trying to cover it up, the murder of my
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friend Uriah, blot all of that out of my life, Lord, erase it.
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Just like my purposeful transgression never happened.
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He continues here in verse 2. And wash me thoroughly,
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completely is the idea from my iniquity.
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Iniquity just means this. We are twisted inside.
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If you've ever heard somebody say watch out for that guy, that
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guy's twisted, right? That's what that word iniquity
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means. And he's saying wash me from
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that twistedness inside of me and cleanse me from my sin where
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I have missed the mark. The word wash here in Hebrew,
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it's interesting. It's not to rinse or to soak.
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Like if you've got a dirty, sweaty shirt that you put into
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the washing machine and you and you rinse it and soak it and it
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spins, right? No, no, it's this idea in
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Hebrew. It's a specific word that means
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with the feet. And so when something like a
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garment was really dirty, and even still in parts of the world
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today, they do this. You would take that garment, you
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would put it into a stone basin, and then somebody would get in
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there with their feet and trample on it to get all of the
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dirt out of that garment. And that's what David is saying
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here. He's saying, wash me thoroughly.
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Would you get all the dirt and all the grime and all the smell
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out of this? There's a labor that is in this
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and he's saying, so Lord, would you work on this?
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Because I can't do it. I can't do it, he continues.
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And cleanse me from my sin. Again, the cleansing is not
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something we can do for ourselves.
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David is saying, God, it's only something you can do.
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And for those of us that are here today, I believe the
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majority of us that have put our faith and our trust in Jesus.
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The Bible tells us this. You have already been watched by
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the blood of Jesus Christ. It says the moment you said yes
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to Jesus, the blood that was poured out as he hung on the
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cross for our sin was washed. You took away all of your sin.
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Tells us this first. John 17, the blood of Jesus
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cleanses us from all sin. Not most of our sin, not the
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small sins, but those couple big ones.
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You're on your own. He says the blood of Jesus
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cleanses us from all of our sin. How about this one?
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Hebrews 914 It tells us there the blood of Jesus purges your
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conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
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In other words, God has a big eraser that could almost be the
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title of the study today. And through the blood of Jesus
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he erases and he washes all of our sin away.
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He cleanses us. And so whatever sin you are
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carrying today, brother or sister, do you want the weight
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of that removed? Do you want it blotted out of
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the story of your life as if it never existed?
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If you're here and you don't know Jesus, then the invitation
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for you today is that today is the day of salvation.
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And you can get washed of all of your sin as well if you put your
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trust in Him to do that, to forgive you and to save you.
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And He, He would love to. That's what He wants, believer.
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He would also love that for you because he says first John 19.
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If you confess your sin, which literally means to say the same
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thing God says about it. It's like taking it from the
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darkness and putting it right underneath the light.
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Here it is and all of its ugliness.
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If you confess your sin, He is faithful.
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Doesn't say you have to be faithful.
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You've already proven I'm not faithful.
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He is faithful and he is just and he will forgive you, it
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says, and cleanse you from all of your sin.
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That word cleanse is in the Greek there catherizo.
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It's the same word that we get catherizer.
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What is the word catheter? Catheter from which thankfully
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I've never needed one yet, but I know the idea behind it is that
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it flushes the toxins out of your body.
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And that's what he's saying. If you confess your sin, God is
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faithful. God is just, he'll forgive you
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and he'll flush all of the toxins, all of the sin, all of
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all of that out of your heart. So then what does confession
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look like? David gives us a great example
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of it here in verse three. He says this for I acknowledge
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my transgression. This is after David trying to
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hide his transgression for a year.
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This is after David saying, I just hope it all goes away.
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He says here, no, no, I acknowledge it.
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And then he said something really interesting.
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My sin is always before me. I remember when I was a kid,
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probably 12 years old, I went out to go get the mail one day
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and I noticed that there was a card.
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And it was from my aunt because it had her name there, and she'd
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sent it to my dad. And I noticed that it was like a
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little thick in there. It wasn't just a card.
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It's kind of like when you get a birthday card, you're always
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like, is there like something in there for me?
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And so I went and opened the card.
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I shouldn't have done that. And as I opened it, there were
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$420.00 bills in there. Now, I was a kid in the 80s, so
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$80.00 was more like $800.00. But as a kid, it's more like
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$8000 today, right? And I'm like, this, this is
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cash, cold, hard cash. And I remember taking it and
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putting it in my pocket. And then I took the card and
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tore it up and threw it away. And my thought was my parents
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will never know because they'll just think it got lost in the
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mail. And then of course I wasn't a
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very smart kid. I went out and, and, and bought
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with that $80 eight of these things called cassette tapes.
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Have you guys heard of those? I loved music.
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And so I went and I come home with eight cassette tapes and my
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story in my mind is this 12 year old little Sinner was like, I'll
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just tell my parents somebody gave it to me, right.
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So then I hear at one point my my dad and mom having a
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conversation. Hey, did you get the card that
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came? No, no, no, She said she sent it
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was supposed to be here and the money that was in there was
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supposed to pay for something. And, and so they began to ask us
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kids and they came to me and I was like, I don't know what
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you're talking about. And, and, and of course, at some
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point, my parents weren't dumb. My dad realizes, wait a minute,
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you've been sitting in your room a lot listening to all this
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music. And at one evening, I remember
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very clearly, he comes and he sits down next to me and he
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gives me that look that only a father can give to a son.
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And he said, where did you get those cassette tapes?
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And at that moment I realized the gig is up.
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Like, I just, I got to come clean with him.
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I felt my heart was pounding. And I remember I took the $80.00
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and I went and spent it. And I, I won't tell you how he
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disciplined me, but I'll tell you I didn't get to keep those a
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cassette tapes, I'll tell you that much.
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But in that moment I was saying to him, I, I just had to
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acknowledge I was caught. I, I, I, I am guilty.
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And that's what David is saying here.
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He's saying I make full confession.
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He's saying if justice were to prevail because of my sin, I'd
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be done for. It'd be over.
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But David is saying here, instead I cast myself on his
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mercy. And he says here my sin is
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always before me. Imagine that with David for over
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a year, every time he goes to bed and he lays his pillow, his
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head on his pillow again, he has all this weighing on him.
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Every time he looks in the mirror, he's looking at that
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face going, my sin is always before me.
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It's like in the rearview mirror of your life.
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It's always there for a year. I imagine he must have pictured
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Uriah's face. He must have remembered how
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loyal Uriah was to him and to the Kingdom and to the people
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and the integrity that Uriah had.
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He remembers how he gave Uriah the notes of his own death
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sentence to deliver. David is saying here, I think
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about that a lot. My sin is ever before me.
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It's eating away at me. He must have been playing that
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night with Bathsheba over and over and over again.
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Why didn't I turn away when I saw her?
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Why did I give into my lust? Why did I even stay back?
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I should have been out with my men.
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I'm over 50 years old. I'm a king.
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I'm God's anointed on the psalmist of Israel.
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Why would I do this? It wasn't worth it.
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And now I can't stop thinking about it.
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My sin is ever before me. It's never out of my mind.
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And what David is saying here is this God, I lay my sin before
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you because it's always before me.
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I can't escape it. I can't get rid of it.
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And here's the way that we'll know we're truly repented when
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it comes to the sin in our life. If my mind is no longer filled
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with the way that the sin is affecting me, 'cause if we're
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honest, most of the time when when our sin is found out, we're
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more upset about the consequences of sin because that
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hurts. But when, when it's no longer
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about me or it's no longer about maybe even the person that I
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hurt through my sin. But when I begin to feel the
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burden of how my sin effects God, that's when my know I know
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my heart is beginning to be positioned in the right place
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because he is the only one that could remove my guilt and my
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shame. Only he can do it.
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So he says in verse four against you and you only have I sinned.
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And you might be thinking, OK, wait a minute.
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Didn't he sin against Uriah? Didn't he sin against Bathsheba?
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Didn't he sin against Joab? How about all the other people?
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And of course the answer is yes. But David has the right context
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here to all of that in comparison to all of those who
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have been hurt. And by the way, we never sin
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unto ourself. Sin always affects the person
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next to us, even if we're alone in the room and we think no one
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else knows. It has a way of, of affecting
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the people that we love. But in comparison to all those
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who have been hurt, David's understanding here, God has been
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hurt the most. And we will never come to terms
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with our sin until we have personal dealings with God
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first, with him first. And one of the reasons why is
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because when we sinned, God saw it.
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God was there, He knows it's happening.
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So we can't excuse it. We can't try to soften it.
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We can't pretend it wasn't as bad as it was because he was
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there, He saw it, and it broke his heart.
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The one that is merciful to you, the one that loves you, the one
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that is kind to you. David is saying here, my
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failure, God was with you. And all the other failures are
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secondary to that failure. And and again, God, you're the
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only one that can remove my guilt.
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He continues in verse four against you.
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Have I sinned and done this evil in your sight?
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You saw it, God that you may be found just when you speak and
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blameless when you judge. In other words, he's saying,
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God, you would be right and you are right in your judgment of me
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because you saw me sin. I I I there's, there's nothing I
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can say about that. Verse 5 he says behold or
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consider this is the idea. Take note of this.
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I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin.
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My mother conceives me and this is the first order of our faith,
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right? We understand first and foremost
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we were born sinners. Bible says all have sinned and
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fallen short of the glory of God and David is acknowledging the
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reason that I sinned is because I am a Sinner or I am a Sinner
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because I was born in sin. I'm a Sinner by nature and I'm a
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Sinner by choice. I've chosen it.
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He continues in verse 6. He says, behold again, consider
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this your desire God, you desire truth in the inward parts and in
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the hidden part. You will make me to know wisdom.
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See, even in church, the gathering this morning, we can
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show up. We can have our Bible under our
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arm. We can look at one another and
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say, God bless you. We can lift our hands and our
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worship while we're living in adultery.
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We can show up while we're living in sexual sin.
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We can show up here and and worship the Lord and then leave
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to go back and get intoxicated later in the day.
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But what David is saying here is God desires truth, not in the
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outward performance, but in the inward part, in the hidden
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parts. And for us, the only way to have
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a clean heart is to have a bent knee and to come to the Lord in
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humility and just say, as David said, I'm undone.
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I can't outrun my sin. I have to own my sin.
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And I confess it in your presence, Lord.
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And then God is so good, because he will say back to you, you are
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forgiven. And I'm going to do a deep
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cleansing work in your life. So his first prayer there was
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Cleanse Me. And his second prayer here is
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Restore me Now Cleanse me and then restore me, verses 7
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through 12, verse 7, purge me with hyssop and I shall be
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clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter
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than snow. Hyssop isn't something that we
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are very familiar with, but certainly in Israel they knew
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exactly what this was. It was a herb that grew in
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Israel, still does today. As a matter of fact, if you go
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to Israel and you go to the Wailing Wall or the the Western
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Wall there you'll see hyssop growing out of the cracks there
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of the wall and and it would be dipped in blood and the hyssop
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would be used used to sprinkle the blood.
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Or if you remember the story in the Old Testament, it would be
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used like a brush when the Israelites were told to cover
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the lentils and the doorpost of their home with the blood of the
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lamb so that the Angel of the Lord would Passover.
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That's that where that idea, the Passover came from.
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And David is saying here, I know that this cleansing is something
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that the Lord does and he continues here in verse 7, wash
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me and I shall be whiter than snow.
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Isaiah would say, though your sins be as scarlet as deep, deep
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red, you shall be washed whiter than snow.
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So my question for you today is, do you believe this?
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Do you believe this not for the others around you, but do you
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believe it for you is the grace of God and the blood of Jesus
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that He shed on the cross of Calvary Church?
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Is it greater than all of our sins?
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It is. There's nothing in you that the
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blood of Jesus can't cleanse. And this is the promise for you,
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brother. And this is the promise for you,
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sister, purchased in the blood of Christ as the payment for
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whatever sin that you are carrying.
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My sin is great, but His grace is greater than all of my sin.
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He continues, Make me hear joy, verse 8, and gladness that the
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bones you have broken may rejoice.
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He's saying, make me or cause me.
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Lord, I can't do this. No one else can do this for me.
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Lord, You alone need to make this happen in me for it to be
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real, to hear joy again. It has been a minute since I've
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been able to feel joy and to hear gladness.
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He continues in verse nine, Hide your face from my sins.
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And he says, once again, blot out all of my iniquity.
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He's saying, Lord, please don't look at my sin.
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It's too much. It is, it is shameful.
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It it's disgraceful. I'm so embarrassed.
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Lord, don't look at it. And there's this beautiful
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verse. Could you write this down?
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Isaiah 43 verse 25, Isaiah 4325 God speaking here, I believe
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this was this is what God would have said to David.
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God says this I even I and he who blots out your transgression
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from my own sake and I will not remember your sense.
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God's saying that he chooses not to bring it up again.
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It tells us in another place that he throws it into the sea
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of forgetfulness. He chooses not to hold our sin
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against us anymore. And then this beautiful verse in
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verse 10. It was a song that many of us
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knew. Keith Green wrote this create in
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me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within
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me. David here is acknowledging, as
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it says in the in the Proverbs, all of the issues of our life
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flow from our hearts. And so our hearts need to
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change. The heart is the center of my
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will. It's the core of who I am.
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And this word to create here is the same word that's used in
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Genesis chapter 1. It's the word Bara Bara when it
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says God created the heavens and the earth and it literally means
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to create something from nothing.
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And that's how God created the earth.
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There was nothing and he created Barra, something from nothing.
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And and David is saying my heart got me into this mess.
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My heart is dirty. And I'm calling on the creator
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of the earth who spoke the world into existence to come and to
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create and to speak a clean heart in me.
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Not a patched up heart, not a rehabilitated heart, but a clean
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heart. It was dirty.
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Create something from nothing. A clean heart God and renew a
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steadfast spirit in me. David is saying it was once
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there. I was once walking with you.
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I had a right spirit. I was constant.
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I would sit alone in the fields and and and write my songs.
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I'd lift lift up to the my eyes to the heavens say Lord our
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Lord, how majestic is your name and all the earth.
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It was once there. Lord, would you make it new
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again in me? And I just pray this morning
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that you would make that plea to the Lord yourself.
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If you need to create in me, create in me.
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I can't do it. But Lord, you can Verse 11, do
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not cast me away from your presence.
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Do not take your Holy Spirit from me again.
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I'm so thankful we don't have to pray this today because David is
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not speaking here in the context of New Testament theology.
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Because for us as God's children, as his sons, as his
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daughters, he has promised never to leave us, never to forsake
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us. He says at the moment we were
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saved, the Holy Spirit of God was with us and he is in us.
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He indwells us and he says that we are sealed with the Holy
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Spirit until the day of redemption.
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It's the guarantee of our inheritance.
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So God can't leave us. He promises He won't leave us,
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but sin does break our relationship with the Lord, our
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fellowship with the Lord, and it does break the sense of His
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presence in our life. And unconfessed sin will break
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what the Holy Spirit wants to give to you.
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Let me just give you a brief little list of what the Holy
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Spirit wants to do. He wants to comfort you when
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your heart is broken. But if again, if, if there's a
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pipe and he wants to bring comfort and flow that comfort
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through that pipe, sin is the the thing that clogs that
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comfort. He wants to give counsel when we
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don't know what to do. Bible says he's the mighty
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counselor. He, he wants to give you help in
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your time of need. Who doesn't want help in their
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time of need? He wants to convict you when
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your hearts begin to go off course so that you don't find
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yourself over in another place of deep brokenness again.
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He wants to fill you and to empower you as a man or a woman
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who is alive. And then David would say here in
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our last verse, verse 12, restore to me the joy, the joy
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of your salvation. He's saying, Lord, would you put
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that back in me again and uphold me by your generous spirit?
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It had been a long time since David experienced that joy.
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Over a year, maybe even longer, because no one just wakes up and
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decides overnight, I'm going to commit adultery.
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There's there's slow compromise that sets in somewhere before
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that something gets in the way of us and Jesus.
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And so let me ask you, when was the last time you experienced
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the joy of your salvation? How long have you felt far from
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God this morning? Let me tell you, God is ready to
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do what he did in David's life. He is ready to restore that joy
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to you and that gladness that he speaks of there in verse eight.
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And only God can do that work in you.
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So His invitation to you today is to ask for it, and then God
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will do it for His glory and for your good.
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And He has proven that He will do it because He sent his one
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and only Son to bleed his life into the ground.
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To say this is the cost. It's a free gift to us, but it
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cost him everything. Cost him everything.
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And then He will uphold you when you feel like you're going to
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fall, when you don't have the strength to take the next step.
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He will uphold you with His generous spirits.
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So again, the prayer for US #1 cleanse me #2 restore me.
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And then as you read the rest of the chapter here, we don't have
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time today, but David will say from verse 13 to the end, use me
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again. Use me again.
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And though David was never the great king of Israel that he
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once was, after this season in his life, David did become the
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sweet psalmist of Israel. And he was and is forever known
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as a man after God's own heart. So his worship team comes back
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up and we get ready to close. I want to give you one final
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take away. If you're taking notes, you can
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jot this down. One final take away here.
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Your past will always be in front of you until you let Jesus
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put it behind you. Your past will always be in
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front of you until you let Jesus put it behind you.
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Think about the toll that this took on David's life.
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It took a physical toll on David Again.
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Verse 8 says he felt as though his bones were broken.
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It took a deep emotional toll on David.
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Verse 12 he says restore to me the joy of my salvation.
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I've lost that. It took a spiritual toll on
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David. Verse 11 tells us David's saying
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there cast me not from your presence.
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He knew that sin affected his fellowship with the Lord and his
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ability to sense his presence and his relationship was
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affected. It took a relational toll on
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David. One of the things that Nathan
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said is the sword is never going to depart from your house,
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David, because of your sin. There's going to be some
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consequences. David's son Absalom, hated his
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dad, rebelled against his dad, wanted his dad dead, tried to
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overthrow the Kingdom and take the throne.
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His best friends lost respect for him.
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And you know, the child that was born to David and Bathsheba from
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that one night of sin, the baby was born, but seven days later
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contracted some kind of an illness and that baby died.
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But they would have another son after that baby.
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And they named that little boy Solomon.
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And I'm sure that David sat down with Solomon as a little boy, as
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a teenager, shared the story with him.
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He said, Solomon, don't, don't do what I did.
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Let me tell you what God taught me.
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Let me tell you why I wrote Psalm 51.
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And then later on, as Solomon became a man in the king, he
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would write this Solomon in Proverbs 2813.
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I have no doubt that if Solomon wrote this, he was thinking of
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his dad. As he said, he who covers his
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sin will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes
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them will have mercy. Mercy.
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It's not a good word. He's a merciful God.
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I want to ask us to do this, if we could just close our eyes and
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bow our hearts before the Lord. We often do this at the end of a
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service, some kind of a response.
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I really felt like this today. Needed a response.
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There was a woman last night after teaching this that shared
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with one of the pastor's she'd been struggling with addiction,
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came in to the sanctuary with that weight.
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And then I asked, as I'm going to ask for us to do here, if you
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just want to lay this before the Lord, to stand.
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And she stood and she said she felt immediately that it was
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forgiven and it was gone. Because sometimes there's
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something about just acknowledging in the presence of
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the Lord, a moment in time where I am choosing to say, I believe
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this and I'm leaving it here at the altar.
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Nobody's going to ask you, hey, what are you standing for?
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None of their business. It's between you and the Lord.
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So if you want to do business with the Lord and you want to
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just confess that right now here in his presence, I just invite
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you to stand. I invite you to stand in
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reality, we could all stand. Bible says he who says they have
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no sin and says that God is a liar.
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But if there's anybody here that just wants that freedom, if
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there's anybody here that just wants to say I'm done, I don't
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want it anymore, I could care less if I'm embarrassing myself
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by standing. You're not, by the way, because
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you're in a room full of redeemed people that have
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sinned. This is a hospital.
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If we can't stand and acknowledge that here, where
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else are we going to do it? We're amongst God's redeemed
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people. We are all broken people.
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We are all sinners in need of God's mercy.
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Nobody is more surprised that I get to stand up here in the
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pulpit and communicate this message to you than I am.
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It's nothing but the grace of God.
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And by standing, this can be a moment in time when you can say
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the sin that I brought into this place, I ain't leaving.
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I ain't leaving with it. I'm keeping it here.
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This isn't necessarily a salvation call, although if you
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don't know Jesus, this is the day for you to come and
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experience all of this yourself. You can stand for that as well.
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But for the rest of us, as we close here, I want to just pray
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3 verses over you. After David wrote Psalm 51, he
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wrote another Psalm in response to what God had done through the
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prayer of that broken heart, that guilty heart in Psalm 51.
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And that's in Psalm 32. And for those of you that are
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standing, hear these words as I read them over you on behalf of
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God Almighty Himself. Here's what he says.
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Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose
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sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the
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Lord does not impute iniquity and whose spirit there is no
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deceit. I love this.
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Psalm 325I acknowledged my sin to you and my iniquity.
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I've not hidden. I said I will confess my
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transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my
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sin. And that is a promise from God
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to those that are standing. It's also a promise to those of
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you who are too ashamed to stand.
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I understand, I understand, I've been there.
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And so God, as we close out the service here, we pray for every
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person. You know their story.
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You know what it is that they've brought into this place.
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You know the way, Lord, as we've heard today, the sin can wear
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away at us. Our sin is great, but Your grace
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is greater Lord, greater than all of our sin.
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And I want to pray for those here that don't know Jesus
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personally that today would be the day of salvation.
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That if they would confess with their mouth the Lord Jesus and
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believe in their heart that God raised him from the dead.
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The promises for you, brother or sister, you will be saved.
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For what the heart one believes under righteousness with the
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mouth, confession is made unto salvation.
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Today's the day if you believe the free gift of salvation is
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given to you in this moment and your sins are forgiven.
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For those of you that confess your sin, He is faithful.
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He is just to forgive you and to flush it all out of you.
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And you are now in right standing with God.
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And so Lord Jesus, we just say as a church, thank you, thank
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you Lord, what else can we say? Lord, you have been so gracious,
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so merciful, so kind. Lord, I'm so thankful that
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you're not out to embarrass us. I'm so thankful, God, that
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you're not out to whack us. Lord, I'm so thankful that your
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heart is to be merciful to us. Lord.
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And it's not something, again, that you're reluctant to do,
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Lord. It is something that in your
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tender mercies, you're willing to give a multitude of them.
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A mercy for every sin. Lord, thank you.
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God, we acknowledge your presence in this place.
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We acknowledge the work that you're doing.
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I pray that you'd seal up the commitments of these confessions
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that are made and I pray that you would break the chain of
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whatever sin has been represented in this place so
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that you we can walk together, myself, all of us as a church
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and, and, and the way that you want us to walk in freedom and
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in victory because of the blood of Jesus Christ.
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We pray now in the name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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